ABSTRACT
A major success component of any best practice program is having trained staff who understand the impact of their actions on asset reliability. The past 30 plus years have witnessed a massive shift in the maintenance industry toward a total asset reliability approach. More importantly, this revised approach has embraced and recognized the role and impact Good Lubrication Practices (GLP) now plays in achieving and sustaining asset reliability and lifecycle stewardship. Ironically, lubrication management is a discipline and subject matter known to directly, and indirectly affects up to 70% of all mechanical failures, yet there still is no lubrication specific trade, and likely never will be as vocational schools and apprenticeship programs in their current format continue to shrink and disappear. To meet this challenge many of the world’s leading lubrication experts and organizations that include scientists, consultants, practitioners, and suppliers have supported and worked diligently on three fronts to develop industry recognized worldwide lubrication certification programs.
